Alan Stewart’s UK and Ireland family history news

An accessible guide to Edinburgh’s national, local and family history, with a concise introduction to the city’s long, varied and complex past. The book gives a vivid impression of the city in which your ancestors lived, and includes full details of all the sources for family and local history research.

A concise and straightforward guide designed to help all those starting to trace their Irish ancestry. The book covers civil registration, census returns, census substitutes, church registers, wills and administrations, the Registry of Deeds, records of the armed forces, maps, newspapers, surnames and migration, background information, monumental inscriptions, online sources, Irish archives and family history societies, and Irish resources in the SoG Library.

Published in Australia, but equally useful for people anywhere in the world, this short guide includes information about online resources for London and the former county of Middlesex. The resources include civil registration, the census, parish and non-conformist registers, monumental inscriptions, wills and administrations, armed forces’ records, newspapers, criminal records, local histories, directories, family history societies, archives and other London-specific websites.

A comprehensive guide to tracing Scottish ancestry, this book covers civil registration, census returns, valuation rolls, taxation records, militia lists, parish and other church registers, wills and inventories, clans and families, the armed forces, maps, newspapers, the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, services of heirs, land and court records, online sources, Scottish archives and family history societies, and Scottish resources in the SoG Library.

The easy guide to researching your family history in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, this book covers civil registration, census records, church registers, wills and administrations, military records, electoral rolls, immigration, DNA, family history societies, and the major archives and libraries of Britain and Ireland. In addition, the book looks at emigration to the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and covers the family history records of those countries.